CaseCircle2011
Oak Lawn, IL, USA
Two round orange with white flaming lights on top
Report quality: Moderate58/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (49 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-09-11
- Where
- Oak Lawn, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.711, -87.758 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-oak-lawn-il-2011-143779
Wave
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Oak Lawn, IL shows up 51 times across the archive.
- 219 reports came from Illinois in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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